Cache Properties

Expand the Site Properties/Settings section of the Site Administration Dashboard left panel and click Cache Properties to view or change default cache handling for this CommonSpot site.

CommonSpot also gives you options for handling stale cache – page content that expires due to global or page-specific updates, such as changes affecting page indexes.

You can choose whether and how to serve stale content at the site, template, or page level.

For example, instead of regenerating page indexes after every change, which can slow the display of pages to visitors, you can opt to regenerate them on an hourly, daily, or weekly basis. To automatically rebuild stale cache on a scheduled basis, configure the Rebuild Stale Cache job at the server level.

Note: Unless you schedule this job, CommonSpot does not automatically rebuild stale cache.

These settings define the Controlled by Site option available at the page level through Properties - Cache/Static Settings. You can customize stale cache handling at the page or template level, by choosing Cache/Static Settings from the Properties menu in author mode. Settings at the template level override site level settings, and page-level settings override template settings. See an overview of stale cache handling in Site Administration and a more detailed discussion in Stale Cache Handling.

This dialog displays the following fields:

Keep Cache for Dynamic Content: - The amount of time to maintain temporary versions of content that is rendered "on the fly."

Maximum Time to Keep Stale Cache - The amount of time to maintain temporary versions of expired content.

These settings interact. Although you can enable Keep Cache for Dynamic Content at the site level, it is generally best used at the page or template level as an override to site-wide settings.